HIRSH-AVROM SHTOLPER (b. April 26, 1924)
He was born
in Czernowitz. He attended religious
elementary school, high school, and later a senior high school for literature in
Bucharest. He spent WWII in
concentration camps. From 1948 he worked
for the Bucharest Yiddish state theater until 1961, at which point he settled
in Israel and performed with Habima. He
published poetry in the weekly Ikuf
bleter (Pages of the Jewish Cultural Association) and the monthly Der kultur-vegvayzer (The culture guide)
in Bucharest. In book form: Likht in undzer lebn (Light in our life),
poetry (Bucharest: Farlag far literatur un kunst, 1951), 72 pp.; Pentru tine, versuri (For
you, verses), trans. Virgil Teodoreste (Bucharest, 1957), 82 pp. In partnership with Moyshe Balan, he wrote
for the Yiddish theater in Romania: Dos
folk zingt (The people sing) (1951); Mit
a lid af di lipn (With a song on my lips) (1953); Mit fefer un mit zalts (With pepper and with salt) (1954); Shakh mat (Checkmate) (1955); and Der gan-eydn af der erd (Heaven on
earth) (1957).
Ruvn Goldberg
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